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What is Booting Up?
Booting Up

Booting Up

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Booting Up

In your computer lab session in the school, your teacher has handed you an assignment. Once you enter the computer room, you must make your computer ready for doing work. When the computer is first turned on, the system performs a POST (Power-On Self Test) which tests various components in the computer. The POST checks the entire memory and tests the connections to the various hardware devices attached, such as the keyboard, the disk drive, etc. If any problem occurs with any of the connections to the hardware devices or with the memory, the POST program reports this on the screen. The process of loading or copying the operating system is called Booting Process. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when power is switch on. The boot loader typically loads the main OS for the computer. Every time a computer is switched on, a series of steps have to be performed before the user can interact with it.

The following are the steps to work on computer

Switch on the Power Supply Button

Switch on the UPS

Switch on the Monitor

Wait for the message on the Monitor

Then wait for the cursor on the Monitor Screen

Computer is ready to work

Now let us go over the steps one by one. In the computer room, first you will see the computer in an off-position.

You need to turn on the following switches to start a computer:

Power Supply Switch: Turn on the switch at the source of the power supply. The stabilizer will start receiving the current.

On/Off Switch of UPS: Turn on switch of UPS. The UPS is used to regulate the flow of current.

On/Off Switch of CPU: Turn on switch of CPU. The current will start passing through the system.

On/Off Switch of the Monitor: Turn on switch of monitor. Look at the monitor and you will see some messages. After these messages you will see the cursor on the monitor screen. Now you can begin working on the computer.

Thus we saw the entire Booting Up process to make the computer ready to work.

Every time a computer performs a series of steps after switching on. The following are the steps about the process of opening computer. Arrange the given steps correctly.

(D) All the given statements are not correct. Therefore, option (D) is Incorrect.

(E) All the given statements are not Incorrect. Therefore, option (E) is Incorrect.

The process of starting a computer from a cold state or power-off state is called cold booting, while the process of restarting a computer that has already been started is called warm booting.

Booting: In computing, booting (also known as "booting up") is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when power is switched on.

The process of loading or copying the operating system is called Booting.